Description

Description from Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue

Anthony Aveni looks closely at our holidays, at how we respond to them, the traditions that have been handed down, & he investigates the origins of these traditions, often taking them back to pre-Christian & even magical roots. He describes a pattern & a process behind our holiday cycle.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ancient religions, animism, and ritual and Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy.

Megaliths, stone circles, and archaeoastronomy
Controlled discovery queries from gegnir and openlibrary matched “Archaeoastronomy”. Retained metadata contains “Archaeoastronomy” in the subject metadata.
- “Archaeoastronomy”· via Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue
- “Archaeoastronomy”· via Open Library
- “Archaeoastronomy”· in subject
Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Retained metadata contains “Rites and ceremonies” in the subject metadata.
- “Rites and ceremonies”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 3 editions; 2 cataloged here.

Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
a brief history of our holidays Gegnir Icelandic union-catalog record 1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates); Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Creating, Organizing, and Transforming the Holidays; 2 Happy New Year! But Why Now?; 3 February's Holidays: Prediction, Purification, and Passionate Pursuit; 4 Spring Equinox: Watching the Serpent Descend; 5 The Easter/Passover Season: Connecting Time's Broken Circle; 6 May Day: A Collision of Forces; 7 Summer's Solstice: Feasts of Fire, Water, and Feminine Affairs of the Heart; 8 Labor Day: Remembering the Great Time Wars; 9 Halloween: Dead Time; 10 Thanksgiving: Transcending Pilgrims' Progress; 11 Christmas: From Resurrection to Rudolph; "What Goes Around . . ."Notes; References; Index; Dewey classification: 394.26; illustrations; Includes bibliographical references and index; Oxford scholarship online; Previously issued in print: 2002; Publication place: Oxford	2023	Oxford University Press	English	0195348699 0197711855 1280482125 1423761235 +1 more	Catalog record	Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue (opens in a new tab) Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue (opens in a new tab)
a brief history of our seasonal holidays Open Library record	2003	Oxford University Press	English	9780195150247 0195150244	Borrowable	Open Library (opens in a new tab)